In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Bill Longman wrote: >> On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> kashani wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has >>>>> happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your >>>>> backups are good and they can restore. >>>>> >>>>> Dale >>>>> >>>> Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15 minutes. I >>>> don't see that as a failing of LVM, but of Gentoo for lack of another >>>> culprit. You can only roll your OS forward in so many ways before you >>>> have to do a little offline plumbing. May as well complain that you >>>> had to shutdown your machine to put in more RAM. >>>> >>>> kashani >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I researched using LVM a good while back. The reason I didn't was what >>> I posted. It is prone to problems that are difficult if not impossible >>> to correct. I may not have data that is worth much but I don't want to >>> loose it either way. >>> >>> People that have read these posts can't plead ignorance. >>> >> Yet you, who "have never used LVM" *can* plead knowledge? >> Uh....something's really wrong in this formula. >> >> > > Yep, I read about others having problems and loosing data. > > Dale > >:-) :-)
You can read about others having problems and losing data with pretty much every bit of software ever coded. *Lots* of people are not particularly competent and write horroe stories or bad reviews without bothering to mention the errors they made which actually caused the problem. I see evidence of that on this very list daily. So IMO your method is a bit suspect. :) -- ...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it. I decided, "this is the person I want to sit next to".
